Adriaan Putter
Principal Software Engineer at Xenotar Software
Auckland Metropolitan Area New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAdriaan Putter is a Principal Software Engineer based in Auckland with 14 years of professional experience and a 15-year history of building software across diverse technologies. He currently drives architecture and delivery at Serko Ltd., having progressed there from Senior Engineer to principal while also running his own bootstrapped company, WedPlanner Pro, end-to-end. As founder of Xenotar Software he has hands-on experience in product development, marketing and solo operations, demonstrating rare full-stack ownership beyond pure engineering. His background spans enterprise roles at MYOB and EOH as well as long-term developer stints dating back to the late 1990s, giving him deep institutional knowledge of evolving platforms and legacy integration. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design and steady delivery on complex projects, and he brings an operator’s mindset to scaling products and teams. Based in New Zealand, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with senior technical leadership and a track record of shipping real-world software.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Suiderlig High School
Github Skills (71)
atom-editor10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
keybindings10
sketchup9
visual-studio9
vim9
neovim9
typescript9
minimize9
moq9
cheat-engine8
archived8
controller7
testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adriaanp/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
adriaanp/omnisharp-atom
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
omnisharpatomatom-editor
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